World Literature Independent Reading List Quarter 1 Book Check: Monday, August 29
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Quarter 1 Book Check: Monday, August 29 Quarter 1 Book Report due: Monday, October 3 Quarter 2 Book Check: Monday, October 17 Quarter 2 Book Report: Monday, December 12 Book Report: Typed in MLA essay format with one paragraph for each number.
EUROPEAN: Alghieri, Dante, The Divine Comedy (if you did NOT read this for summer reading) Bitton-Jackson, Livia, I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust Boccaccio, Giovanni, The Decameron De Cervantes, Miguel, Don Quixote Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment Dumas, Alexandre, The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Count of Monte Cristo Euripedes, Medea Flaubert, Gustave, Madame Bovary Hamilton, Edith Mythology (if you did NOT read this for summer reading) Hesse, Hermann, Siddhartha Homer, The Iliad (if you did NOT read this for summer reading) Homer, The Odyssey (if you did NOT read this for summer reading) Hugo, Victor, Les Misérables Joyce, James, A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man Lewis, C. S., The Great Divorce, Mere Christianity Machiavelli, Niccolo, The Prince Proust, Marcel, Remembrance of Things Past Rousseau, Jean Jacques, The Confessions Tolstoy, Leo, Anna Karenina, War and Peace Verne, Jules, Journey to the Center of the Earth Virgil, The Aeneid (if you did NOT read this for summer reading) Vreeland, Susan, The Girl in Hyacinth Blue Wiesel, Elie, Night Woolf, Virginia, Mrs. Dalloway Zusak, Markus, The Book Thief AFRICAN: Achebe, Chinua, Things Fall Apart; No Longer At Ease; Anthills of the Savannah Arrow of God Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, Purple Hibiscus; Americanah; Half of a Yellow Sun Asgedom, Mawi, Of Beetles and Angels Beah, Ishmael, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier; The Radiance of Tomorrow (post war fictional account of people who return to their village)(transition from orphan to soldier); Biko, Stephen, I Write What I Like (hard to find copies) Brink, Andre, A Dry White Season; An Act of Terror; A Chain of Voices Coetzee, J.M., The Life & Times of Michael K Courteney, Bryce, The Power of One, Tandia Dangarembga, Tsitsi, Nervous Conditions Deng, Benson & Alephonsion & Ajak, Benjamin, They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky Eggers, Dave, What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (One of Lost Boys of Sudan) Emecheta, Buchi, The Bride Price Fuller, Alexandra, Don’t Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight Godwin, Peter, Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa; When a Crocodile Eats the Sun Gordimer, Nadine, July's People; A Sport of Nature; A Guest of Honour; My Son's Story & others Greene, Melissa, There Is No Me Without You Head, Bessie, The Collector of Treasures; Tales of Tenderness; When Rain Clouds Gather; Maru Ilibigazia, Immaculee, with Steve Erwin, Left to Tell, how she survives the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda, memoir Kamkwamba, William (and Bryan Mealer), The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (a boy in Malawi reads about windmills and makes his own power plant—nonfiction) Kingsolver, Barbara, The Poisonwood Bible Laye, Camara, The Dark Child Maathai, Wangari, Unbowed Mathabane, Mark, Kaffir Boy, Miriam's Song Molapatene, Ramusi & Mattera, Don, Soweto, My Love Naidoo, Beverley, Chain of Fire, No Turning Back; Waiting for the Rain, Out of Bounds Ngugi, wa Thiong'o, Weep Not Child; The River Between; Petals of Blood; Wizard of the Crow; Dreams in a Time of War (memoir) Ousmane, Sembene, God's Bits of Wood; Tribal Scars Rusesabagina, Paul, An Ordinary Man Soyinka, Wole, The Interpreters; Death and the King's Horseman, Woods, Donald, South African Dispatches: Letters to My Countrymen MIDDLE EASTERN & NORTH AFRICAN: Dirie, Waris, Desert Flower Djebar, Assia, Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade Faqir, Fadia, Cry of the Dove Fernea, Elizabeth, Guests of the Sheik Fitzgerald, Laura, Veil of Roses Gorkin, Michael, Days of Honey, Days of Onion: The Story of a Palestinian Family in Israel Habibi, Emile, The Secret Life of Saaed, The IIl-fated Pessoptomist Hirsi Ali, Ayaan, Infidel (memoir of journey from Mogadishu to Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia & Kenya to The Netherlands to escape an arranged marriage) Hosseni, Khaled, A Thousand Splendid Suns Hussein, Taha, An Egyptian Childhood (autobiography) Mahfouz, Naguib, Midaq Alley; Wedding Song; Palace Walk Mai, Mukhtar, In the Name of Honor (memoir of a woman punished for the indiscretions allegedly committed by her brother) Nafisi, Azar, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books Noble, Iris, Mahmud's Story: Journal of a Palestinian Refugee Saadawi, Nawal, Woman at Point Zero; Memoirs of a Woman Doctor Salih, Tayeb, Season of Migration to the North Sasson, Jean, (American) Princess Shah, Saira, The Storyteller’s Daughter Shah, Tahir, In Arabian Nights Zenatti, Valerie, When I Was a Soldier ASIAN Akutagawa, Ryunosuke, Rashomon Ariyoshi, Suwako, The River Ki; The Doctor's Wife; The Twilight Years Arundhati, Roy, The God of Small Things Chang, Jung, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Cheng, Nien, Life and Death in Shanghai Dai, Sijie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2 18-yr-old boys sent to mountain village during Cultural Revolution & their adventures & love story) Desai, Anita, Clear Light of Day; Fasting, Feasting Endo, Shusaku, Silence; Deep River; Stained Glass Elegies (short stories) Ghandi, Mohandas K., Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth Gao, Xingjian, Soul Mountain Hayslip, Le Ly, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places Hessler, Peter, Oracle Bones Hua, Yu, To Live Ibuse, Masuji, Black Rain Jiang, Ji-Li, Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution Kawabata, Yasunari, Snow Country; A Thousand Cranes Kogawa, Joy, Obasan Kuroyanagi, Tetsuko, Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window (autobiography) Lapierre, Dominique, City of Joy Mah, Yen, Falling Leaves McBurney-Lin, Jana, My Half of the Sky Min, Anchee, Red Azalea: A True Story of Love & Life in China; Wild Ginger; Empress Orchid; Becoming Madam Mao; Pearl of China Mishima, Yukio, The Sound of Waves; Spring Snow; Runaway Horses; Sun and Steel Mori, Kyoko, Shizuko's Daughter; One Bird Murakami, Haruki, A Wild Sheep Chase; Hardboiled Wonderland & the End of the World; 1Q84 Murasaki, Shikibu, The Tale of Genji Ninh, Bao, The Sorrow of War Oe, Kenzaburo, A Quiet Life; The Crazy Iris (collection of short stories about Hiroshima) Ooka, Shohei, Fires on the Plain Rushdie, Salman, Midnight’s Children See, Lisa, Snow Flower & the Secret Fan; Peony in Love Shankar, Ravi, My Music, My Life Sidhwa, Bapsi, Cracking India Takeyama, Michio, Harp of Burma Tan, Amy, The Bonesetter's Daughter; Saving Fish from Drowning Tanizaki, Junichiro, The Makioka Sisters Tsukiyama, Gail, Women of the Silk; The Language of Threads; The Samurai's Garden Umrigar, Thrity, The Space Between Us Ung, Loung, First They Killed My Daughter: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers Vaillant, John, The Tiger Yan, Mo, Red Sorghum Yoshimoto, Banana, Kitchen, Lizard, NP, Goodbye Tsugumi Zhai, Zhenhua, Red Flower of China
Alcala, Kathleen, The Flower in the Skull & others Allende, Isabel, House of the Spirits; Paula (autobiography) & others Alvarez, Julia, In the Time of the Butterflies Anaya, Rudolfo, Bless Me, Ultima Azuela, Mariano, The Underdogs Borges, Jorge Luis, Fictions (Ficciones); Labyrinths Coelho, Paulo, The Alchemist Ezquivel, Laura, Like Water for Chocolate Fuentes, Carlos, Aura Garcia, Cristina, Dreaming in Cuban Garcia Lorca, Frederico, The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta; Gypsy Ballads Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Love in the Time of Cholera, Chronicle of a Death Foretold Llosa, Mario Vargas, The Feast of the Goat Paz, Octavio, The Labyrinth of Solitude Rodriguez, Richard, Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez Soto, Gary, Living Up the Street Download 37.7 Kb. Share with your friends:
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